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Endoscope management system

a management system and endoscope technology, applied in the field of endoscope management system, can solve the problems of limited application, lack of system sophistication, and inability to provide such integration, and achieve the effect of easy system setup and updating, high user-friendly operation, and easy reading

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-02-26
ENDOLOGISTICS
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[0007]The system is designed to be highly user-friendly in operation. It is relatively easy to set up the system and to update changes thereto (e.g. to add new equipment to an endoscopy suite's inventory of equipment). Information that is useful to a user can readily be tracked. Such information may be useful for a number of different purposes, including for operational efficiency purposes, budgetary purposes and infection control purposes. Further, any such tracked information can readily be made available to a user by use of sophisticated database / software query tools, either on a real-time basis or in the event a user wishes to conduct an analysis of the endoscopy suite over a specific period of time. In addition, the system is designed such that information that is presented to a particular user is easy to read and readily accessible.
[0009]The disclosed system is an Internet / web-based system. The system will incorporate suitable user display units which can facilitate the processing of the endoscopy equipment by providing pertinent information to the user or by giving on screen prompts. Preferably, some or all of the user display units will be in the form of medical grade touch screen panel PCs, used in combination with bar code scanners. A colour-coded presentation / display system is utilized to enhance the system's on-screen readability to a user. In a preferred embodiment of the system, this colour-coded display system is used in conjunction with a colour-coded labeling system either on the endoscopes themselves or on the hangers and / or storage cabinets for such endoscopes and related equipment, thus allowing for ease of identification and access to equipment and ensuring proper and safe storage (and also reducing the possibility that users may use or otherwise process the wrong endoscope by mistake).

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Currently, there are no systems that provide such integration.
A prior art system is known which allows users to keep track of the number of times an endoscope has been used by means of a counter; however, this has rather limited application and does not provide the level of sophistication of the disclosed system.
This prior art system is very primitive and only counts, when the endoscope is plugged in, how many times it is used.
This does not provide the broad functionality of the disclosed system, nor the endoscope-centric focus.

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[0013]Referring to FIG. 1, an endoscopy management system 17 is represented. The endoscopy management system (sometimes referred to herein as “EMS”) 17 comprises various components, including a database 20 that resides on the EMS, a dedicated server 23, which in turn is in communication (it should be understood that communication may be by wired means or wirelessly) with a web server 26. The dedicated server 23 hosts the endoscopy management system application, i.e. the software component of the endoscopy management system 17. In one embodiment of the disclosed system, the endoscopy management system application is a software program written in ASP.Net where the database resides on an SQL server. The web server 26 communicates via the Internet with certain networked component units of the on-site computer equipment 32 of the endoscopy management system which are located at a medical facility (sometimes referred to herein as “computing terminals”). To protect the integrity and confid...

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A web-based endoscope management system and method for managing, scheduling and tracking in real-time the processing of endoscopy equipment in a single site or across multiple sites. The system allows various useful information relating to the managed endoscopy equipment and its processing history (such as equipment status, equipment movement, equipment repair history, cost and procedural efficiencies, what individuals have processed or come into contact with the equipment) to be tracked and analyzed. The system incorporates a user display and prompt to assist users in following the proper processing and cleaning protocols (preparation, pre-cleaning, automated reprocessing, repair, etc.) for the equipment. The system uses a colour-coded display so that pertinent information can be seen at a glance. This system is used in conjunction with a suitable colour-coded labeling scheme to reduce the possibility that users will process the wrong equipment or improperly store it.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]Disclosed herein is an invention relating to a system for managing the processes and equipment of an endoscopy suite. More particularly, disclosed herein is a computer-based system for tracking, scheduling and analyzing operational procedures and the use of endoscopy-related equipment, for analyzing cost and procedural efficiencies thereof, and for enforcing standardization of procedures relating to endoscopy-related equipment in a medical facility. The system enforces the standardization of cleaning and infection control protocols promoting a high degree of patient safety. The system can be used in a single hospital site or can be used to manage multi-site environments where it becomes an enterprise management system, in each case, providing a centralized management system, enabling easy accumulation of any required information.BACKGROUND[0002]In a hospital or clinic setting, the use of endoscopes and related equipment is very common, both during surgica...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q50/00G16H30/20G16H40/20G16H40/67
CPCG06F19/327G06Q50/24G06Q50/22G06Q10/087G16H40/20G16H40/67G16H30/20
Inventor GIRALDO, CARLOS A.SMALL, MICHAEL T.ISMAIL, CHADI
Owner ENDOLOGISTICS
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